NYC Ferry
78
Quality Score
Strong
NYC Ferry
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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NYC Ferry is an iOS app from Hornblower Cruises & Events in the Travel category, currently rated 4.9★ across 50,069 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 78: Strong (healthy traction). For a Travel app, that means healthy traction. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$1.6M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.7M – $2.6M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$2.0M – $3.8M
per month
BIG tier
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
🤖Also on Android
$601/mo · 1K ratings · 4.7★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$100K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $75K – $135K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱 MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱 5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| 📦 Asset bundle (118 MB) | +$27K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$23K |
Total estimate
$100K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$20K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $15K – $30K · 17× MRR multiple
💸
~0.2× build cost (under-water)
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.
How the multiple was built
| 📺 Ad-supported base | 15× MRR |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
Final multiple
17× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
5.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
550K
Daily active
82K
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲 Travel engagement | ~110 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Travel D30 retention | 10% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.15 |
DAU / MAU
15% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.6M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$1.6M – $2.1M
12 months
$1.7M – $2.6M
24 months
$2.0M – $3.8M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 56/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.0
Product Quality
9.9
Revenue Strength
6.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.8
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $640K - $3520K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.93★ across 50,069 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $28.8M-$51.2M.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (50,069 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (44 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🆕 What's New · v5.9.0
- Bug fixes
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- NYC Ferry
- Developer
- Hornblower Cruises & Events
- Bundle ID
- co.bytemark.nycf
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, BN, BS, BG, CA, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, ET, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HI, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, LV, LT, MS, MN, NB, FA, PL, PT, RO, RU, SR, ZH, SL, ES, SW, SV, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI, YI
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $1.2K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Travel
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth50,069 ratings+3% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (58 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (33 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
📝 About this app
Commuting made comfortable with NYC Ferry. Come see just how easy (and enjoyable) your journey can be.
Here are 5 great things you can expect from the NYC Ferry app:
Help NYC “go green” with paperless ticketing! Buy and use tickets directly from your phone.
Take the stress out of your commute with live scheduling and real-time updates.
Get ready for an adventure! Explore NYC with our end-to-end trip planner.
Stay ahead of the game with push notifications for the routes that matter to YOU.
Love to ride? Take advantage of our 30-day Unlimited Pass! Available in-app only.… View full description on the official store →
Here are 5 great things you can expect from the NYC Ferry app:
Help NYC “go green” with paperless ticketing! Buy and use tickets directly from your phone.
Take the stress out of your commute with live scheduling and real-time updates.
Get ready for an adventure! Explore NYC with our end-to-end trip planner.
Stay ahead of the game with push notifications for the routes that matter to YOU.
Love to ride? Take advantage of our 30-day Unlimited Pass! Available in-app only.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 118 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 13.0+🔖 v5.9.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, BN, BS, BG, CA +39📂 Travel💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
10 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-05
📈
Crossed 50,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.98 → 4.90 (improved 1.92★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2018-06
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-07
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.67 → 2.50 (improved 0.83★)
2017-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 1.50 (improved 0.50★)
2017-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.75472★ | 53 | 4.75472★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.95652★ | 92 | 4.95652★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.89571★ | 163 | 4.89571★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.87943★ | 282 | 4.87943★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.89189★ | 185 | 4.89189★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.91319★ | 288 | 4.91319★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.86667★ | 30 | 4.86667★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.85217★ | 115 | 4.85217★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.9276★ | 50,652 | 4.9276★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for NYC Ferry: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why high confidence: 50,069 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does NYC Ferry make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, NYC Ferry earns approximately $1.2K/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
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Who makes NYC Ferry?▴
NYC Ferry is published by Hornblower Cruises & Events on the Apple App Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is NYC Ferry's BU Score?▴
NYC Ferry has a BU Score of 78/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.